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D. S. MOORE. -RAILWAY TRACK LAYER.

' No. 408,186. Patented July 30, 1889.y

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DAILY S. MOORE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF TW'OfFHIRDS TO ABNER PRICE AND ALEXANDER PRICE, OF SAME PLACE.

RAI LWAY-TRACK LAYER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 408,186, dated July 30, 1889. Application filed September ll, 1888. Serial No. 285,110. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAILY S. MOORE, a citizen ot' the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Track Layers, which are fully set forth in the following specifica tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 shows my improved machinery for laying railway-track .in side elevation. Fig. 2 shows the same in plan. Fig. 3 shows the upper end of my new side stake and bracket on the stake and my new tie-carrier in end view, with its new roller and chain belts and rollers to hold said tie-carrier. Fig. 4 shows the end of the bracket over the stake in section, so as to show its interior construction and the part upon which the tie-carrier rests in a modified form from that shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 5 shows a fragment of a roller in my tiecarrierwith its chain-pulleys, &c., in enlarged detail. Fig. 6 is a side view of a splicing-plate used to join successive sections ot carriers.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of the mechanism for the same purpose for which Letters Patent were granted to me February l, 1887, and numbered 356,777 and 379,178, March 6, 1888.

It being found somewhat unsafe as well as impractical to run the ties over the heads of the men working on the rail and supply ears in front, to overcome said diiiicult-ies, I construct my improved machinery substantially as follows-namelyz I use the same arrangement of flat cars a l) c, dsc., but provide the front car a with a set of two or three tall posts d on each side, and to them I bolt horizontal bars c'Z, which are left to project over the side of the cara sufcient distance to hold both sides of the tie-carrier e in line with the tie-carriers on the outside of the tie-carrying cars in the rear part of the train, forming a part of my complete mechanism. Said tie-carrier e is bolted securely to said cross-bars, and the said six posts are further secured by horizontal tie-rods or wire ropes cl2 at their top, as shown, so as to be iirmly braced.

To the front end of the carriereis attached a carrier e', which is hung so that its front or outer end shall be over the center of the track, and which may be raised and lowered at its outer end by means of theropes e2, attached to it and fastened to the upper ends ol' inclined posts e3. The upper ends of said posts are held in place each by a pair of braces c Jfrom the tops of the front posts d, and the carrier e is further braced by a brace e5 from the opposite post (l, as shown.

To the rear end of the carrier c is attached a carrier f by means of splicing-plates m of any suitable form, preferably such as are shown in Fig. 6, which have slots through which the bodies oi the bolts pass into the sides of the carriers, which thereby permit sutlicient longitudinal motion for adjustment, but hold the ends of adjacent carrier in line, and which may be held at any point by drawing the bolt-heads iirmly on the plates, and near the rea-r end of said carrier is attached a clevis f` over the outer sides of the carriers, to which a wire rope f2 is attached, which passes over a diagonal brace from the foot of the post CZ on the car a, and said rope is secured at the top of said post CZ, so as to hold the rear end of said carrier to the front end of the carrier g of the car c. Said carrier f is therefore carried entirely by the car o, and tends thereby to balance the overhanging weight in front of the car. The car c has stakes c set into the stake-pockets, with Which such cars are usually provided, and said stakes are provided on their outer sides with notches or upwardly -pointing serrations c2.

A bracket 7L, having a hole at one end, through which said stake can pass, is placed upon each of the two posts c', placed on the third and each car back of it in the train and in line with the carrier e. Said bracket has a lip h projecting inward into the stake-hole, which passes into one of the notches c2 and securely holds it at any desired point on the said stake. The side of the hole opposite said lip h projects back from the post a distance slightly greater than the length of the lip, but slants upward toward the post and presses against it at its upper end,which,with the lip diagonally opposite, tends to hold the bracket IOO level. By this arrangement it is only necessary to raise the outer end of the bracket until the lip is out of the notch to either raise or lower the bracket, and to bring it to the horizontal position to secure it at any point. Said bracket is provided with a roller @which carries the carriers g, also with horizontal rollers t" on the outer sides of the carriers. Said rollers serve to allow freer motion longitudinally to said brackets under the carriers as the cars are pushed together or drawn apart in the train, and thereby to ease the lateral strain on said brackets.

The carriers are provided with rollers j, which are provided at one end with a pair of connected sprocket-wheels j and flanges jg between them, and also at both their outer ends. Said construction is, besides being' more economical, also easier working. The chain belts pulling,` against each other in a more direct line relieve the axles of much friction. One of said rollers j of the carrier e is fixed to a shaft js, projecting across the car a, on which is a pulley connected to an engine, through which all the rollers in the connected series of carriers are operated, and by means of which the ties thrown upon them are carried to the front and dropped on the road-bed from the front of the carrier e. All the carriers have similar sides e2, and are alike provided with rollers .y and chain belts, as already shown and described.

lVhat I claim isl. Ina railway-track layer, in combination with the carriers g, the brackets h and stakes c', provided with notches c2, substantially as spcciiied.

2. In a railway-track layer, the combination of the notched stake c with a bracket prowith the car a, provided with posts d and iixed carrier c outside of said osts the ad- P justable carrier e', provided with brace e5, posts es, and braces et, substantially as specihed.

DAILY S. MOORE.

Witnesses:

XVM. ZIMMERMAN, T. VOGEL. 

